MAJ Marvin Brown served as the deputy division personnel officer (G1) and deputy coalition joint personnel officer (CJ1) with the 101st Airborne Division at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...

Major Michael Borgel served as the operations officer for the 494th Military Police Battalion at Camp Cropper, the high-value detention facility, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from September 2006 through September 2007. Borgel was a part of...

From April 2003 through May 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, CW3 Mark Brubeck (a CW2 at the time) served as the mobility warrant officer as part of HHC, 4th Infantry Division, in the Division Transportation Office. Brubeck was,...

Major Nicole Stanford served as the assistant operations officer for the 311th Military Intelligence Battalion and commander of that battalion's Alpha Company in Kuwait and Iraq from February 2003 through January 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi...

Immediately after 9/11, said Major Matthew Boal, then Headquarters and Headquarters Company commander with 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Division, at Fort Riley, there was a "very rapid requirement to provide a standing quick reaction force" to, if...

On 9/11, Major David Short was the assistant operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, based out of Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia. In this interview, he discusses his unit's activities in the...

MAJ Mark Battjes served as company commander and Military Transition Team (MiTT) chief in Baghdad, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2010 interview, MAJ Battjes discusses his prior research and...

A former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and later Bravo Battery commander in 2nd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment - a Patriot missile equipped unit - Major Matthew Rauscher, in January 2003, became the assistant operations...

In this interview CPT Mike Blankenship discusses his deployment to Iraq in October 2008 as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) commander for 1-63 Armor. CPT Blankenship had a difficult challenge in that his battalion was switching...

Major Michael Borgel served as the assistant operations officer for the 384th Military Police Battalion at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from May 2003 through June 2004. Borgel was part of a Reserve unit when he was notified of...

From January to June 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Teresa Schlosser, US Army Corps of Engineers, served as the resident engineer in charge of the Bagram runway. At the time, USACE's Bagram resident office was...

Lieutenant Colonel Mark Schmidt has served in a variety of positions as a psychological operations (PSYOP) officer, including Operation Enduring Freedom tours in the Philippines and Afghanistan. In this interview, he talks about PSYOP doctrine as...

A student at the Judge Advocate General's School from September 2001 through June 2002, Major Charles Lozano then moved to Germany and assumed duties as chief of criminal law for the 1st Armored Division until August of the following year. "The big...

Major Michael Berdy commanded a company in the 25th Infantry Division in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about accountability issues with ammunition arising from their handoff, the size...

In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...

In this interview, MAJ Michael Busby, US Army, Engineer, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander in 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Busby describes some leadership challenges he faced while being stuck at the...